Spiritual Diasporas: A Performance Ceremony + Symposium RSVP Form

Spiritual Diasporas: A Performance Ceremony + Symposium is a series of week-long embodied gatherings that draw on performance ritual and spiritual ceremony to cultivate care, agency, and worldbuilding through which we experience wholeness. How might we tend to the spirits of this land and of our kin through ceremony? How do we invoke and reckon with entangled colonial histories and their continuations through communal stories, songs, and rituals? 

By framing these gatherings as “spiritual diasporas,” we gesture towards the fragmentations and frictions across multiple experiences of migration, not as lack but as a productive portal for creation. By activating the body as an instrument to reclaim and reconnect with spirituality, we cultivate life-affirming power to come together to be in embodied presence with one another and our ancestors.

These intimate gatherings include artist workshops, performance ceremony, devised performance workshop, talking circle, and dance party across Wednesday, December 3 through Friday, December 5 on the Medford campus. 

Find descriptions and a full program here.

All events are open to anyone. 

Co-organized by Sung-Min Kim, Wenxuan Xue, DeVante Love, and Elisa Peebles

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025 

Artist Workshop with Artist-in-Residence Dohee Lee Wednesday, December 3, 10:30-11:45am
Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155.

Opening Reception (lunch provided)  Wednesday, December 3, 12-1:15pm
Remis Sculpture Court, 15 Lower Campus Road, Medford, MA 02155 

Artist Workshop with Artist-in-Residence mica rose Wednesday, December 3 1:30-2:45pm
Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02144

Devised Performance Workshop with Zoe Haralambidis (SMFA Performance Club)  Wednesday, December 3 4:30-5:45pm 
Alumnae Hall, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155

These workshops will involve reflection, movement, and storytelling rooted in a variety of spiritual and land based practices. All levels of experience with movement and performance are welcome.

Which events on Wednesday, December 3 will you attend? 
(The artist workshops with Dohee Lee and mica rose have reached capacity, if you were interested in participating in a workshop please consider attending Zoe Haralambidis's performance workshop!)
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Thursday, December 4, 2025
Spiritual Diaspora Performance Ceremony 
Thursday, December 4, 6-9pm
Balch Arena Theater, 40 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02155

6pm pre-show community installation
7pm performance; followed by conversation with artists

“Ritual on the Road” by Dohee Lee

Chilseong Saenamgut (Duringut): Ritual for Sickness is a performance ritual inspired by the sacred rituals originating in the artist’s hometown of Jeju Island, Korea. This ritual allows participants to identify and confront challenges, purge destructive and monstrous spirits (Heomaengyee-허맹이), and invite vital spirits (Chilseong-칠성신) back to humanity and land. The ritual performance is by Dohee Lee. Music composition is by Adria Otte and Dohee Lee, Garments by Dana Kawano and Dohee Lee. 

queer, your place is in the revolution by mica rose

bayot, ang lugar mo’y sa pakikibaka: queer, your place is in the revolution blends oral histories and living traditions of tatak, kalis, pangalay, and organizing for national democracy in the Philippines—inviting us all to play like we belong in the revolution. In this participatory ritual, you are invited to breathe, stretch, swing bamboo swords, and dance like the water you are.

Will you be attending the Thursday, December 4th performance? *
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Friday, December 5, 2025
Spiritual Diaspora Closing Festival
Friday, December 5, 6:30-9:30pm (dinner provided)
Jackson Dance Lab, 50 Talbot Ave, Medford, MA 02144

The night will begin with dinner and fellowship, then move into the Dance Lab, transformed into our sacred grove for the evening through an intention-setting circle ritual. We’ll then flow into a collective reflection cypher, where symposium organizers, invited guests, and the audience circle up to speak about the week’s key themes and learnings. The festival will culminate with a dance party, facilitated by the sounds and frequencies of Afrodiasporic genres. Together, we’ll ignite the dance floor as a site of ancestral remembrance and revel in the warmth of our inner light as we close out the symposium and head into winter.
Will you be attending the Friday, December 5th closing festival? *
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Please find the full program here. 
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